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White House to Get Solar Panels Installed This Week, Three Years After Promising
2013-08-15 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Obama administration had pledged in October 2010 to put solar panels on the White House as a sign of the president`s commitment to renewable energy. The White House official, who asked not to be identified because the installation is in process, wrote in an e-mail the project is "a part of an energy retrofit that will improve the overall energy efficiency of the building." At the time of the 2010 announcement, then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu and White House Council on Environmental Quality...
How solar panels could help to save the bees and butterflies
2013-08-01 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Solarcentury's plans to transform its solar farms into wildlife sanctuaries have taken a step forward, after the developer said it was ready to start planting seeds around its solar panels. The company has partnered with seed supplier Habitat Aid to plant British native trees and plants that aim to create safe havens for dwindling populations of butterflies, bumblebees, and other insects. Yesterday, it announced the first seeds had been harvested and were ready to be sown. "At Solarcentury,...
Forget solar panels, here come building-integrated photovoltaics
2013-07-24 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Solar panels are becoming passé. Why put solar panels on top of building construction materials when you could just tap the power of the sun directly through the construction materials themselves? Bloomberg reports on the rapid growth in building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPV. These are solar powerharvesting cells that are incorporated into the walls, roofs, and windows of buildings integrated seamlessly instead of being bolted onto a finished building as an apparent afterthought: From...
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Living Smart: Solar panels
2013-06-27 20:30:58| IT Services - Topix.net
Erika Schweickert of Capital City Solar in Rocklin, Calif., has seen a surge the past couple of years in customers interested in investing in solar energy systems for their homes.
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New Approach Could Push Solar Panels To New Heights
2013-06-27 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online MIT researchers have developed a new approach for solar power that could push the technology to new heights. The researchers are aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible. They said this new approach "pushes towards the ultimate power conversion possible from a material for solar power. Jeffrey Grossman, the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and colleagues wrote in the...
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